Cool Blog
Monday, March 30th, 2009 
We just found an interesting blog about women's issues that I thought might appeal to some in the gladrags community. "Women's Rights" at change.org explores many different areas in a well written, concise, and interesting manor. They write about a variety of topics from a feminist perspective from sports and politics to make-up and the media. In a recent entry mentioning yours truly, GladRags, the blogger critiqued a recent tampax commercial depicting an anthropomorphized version of Mother Nature destroying a young woman's dream by causing her to wake up to change her tampon. Having recently seen this commercial on television, I was disgusted by its attitude toward women's natural processes. Dorothee at Women's Rights succinctly expressed the problem with the advertisement and many similar advertisements. In addition to her assessment, I also find it interesting that at the end of the ad, they say that their tampons last up to 8 hours. I don't know about everyone else, but 8 hours is the minimum I need to sleep in a night. I would much rather wear a cup or night pad with some extra inserts and not worry about toxic shock syndrome or leaking if I don't set an alarm.
